John Nesbitt Movies

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends...

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz...

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

The Devil works with Adolf Hitler to cause inflation in the United States.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.

This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its...

This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.

This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.

This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s.

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional...

A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storms. Although some precautions can be taken to...

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.

This entry in MGM's Passing Parade series looks at the meaning of dreams, including one by Abraham Lincoln that foretold his death.

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

This short tells the story of Norwegian explorer and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). After a life of adventure, he was instrumental in...